Challenges in Setting up Cross-Institutional Virtual Campuses

Autor/in	Burgi, Pierre-Yves
Titel	Challenges in Setting up Cross-Institutional Virtual Campuses
Quelle	In: EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 32 (2009) 2, (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1528-5324
Schlagwörter	Campuses; Distance Education; Foreign Countries; Virtual Classrooms; Virtual Universities; Systems Development; Intercollegiate Cooperation; Performance Factors; Barriers; Formative Evaluation; Performance Technology; Human Factors Engineering; Switzerland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Distance study; Distance learning; Fernunterricht; Ausland; System development; Systementwicklung; Hochschulkooperation; Leistungsindikator; Schweiz
Abstract	Approved in 1999 by the Swiss Parliament, the Swiss Virtual Campus (SVC) project debuted in 2000 with the goal of promoting an information society in Switzerland. The University of Geneva has been actively involved with building the SVC and the European virtual campus e-LERU, a two-year project in which eight European countries partnered to implement research-based education at a distance. These two cross-institutional virtual campuses brought together traditional universities having unequal experience in distance education. Focusing on the SVC experience, this report identifies critical characteristics of such multifaceted projects with the goal of improving their chances for success. The construction and funding phases of the SVC are complete, and the next phase will concern sustainability, which clearly represents a major challenge for virtual campuses. Radical changes in the higher education curriculum might be needed to improve the virtual campuses' chances for success. (Contains 3 tables, 1 figure and 33 endnotes.) (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10